One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

A student walks down a hallway as several signs indicating students are taking STAAR exams are displayed at Arnold Elementary ...

Researchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic.

The data includes third- through eighth-grade test scores for districts in 40 states and the District of Columbia, as of the ...

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...

A grade-school math problem has left people perplexed, can you solve the simple-looking equation in just 30 seconds? The sum, ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) tested their ability to integrate unmanned aircraft systems to support ground forces during a live-fire exercise on March 12. “We are no ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...

Scores on New York’s statewide assessment tests improved in both math and English language arts during the 2024-2025 school year. Statewide, 57% of students tested proficient in math last year, up 3 ...